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Severe Storms
online meteorology guide

[Image: severe weather home page image (95K)]
Graphic developed by: Dan Bramer

The Severe Storms Module is a combination of two elements. The first is the NOAA Severe Storms Spotters Guide. The second is a section recently added to discuss the efforts and results of modeling severe storms. The Severe Storms Spotters Guide contains supplemental instructional resources and a program designed to familiarize meteorologists and advanced severe storm spotters with the basic "building blocks" of convective storm structure. The focus of the training series is the development of a thunderstorm "spectrum" and a discussion of the physical characteristics and severe weather potential of the various storm types in the spectrum.

Sections
Last Update:05/15/99
Dangers of Thunderstorms
Includes: lightning, floods, hail, winds and tornadoes.

Types of Thunderstorms
Single cells, multicell clusters, multicell lines (squall lines) and supercells.

Components of Thunderstorms
Updrafts and downdrafts, outflow phenomena, wall clouds and the effects of wind shear on thunderstorm development.

Tornadoes
Tornadoes, cyclic storms and low-level flow fields associated with tornadic thunderstorms.

Modeling
Supercells, squall lines, and other phenomena recreated inside computers for the benefit of forecasting and understanding.

Acknowledgments
Those who contributed to the development of this module.


Terms for using data resources. CD-ROM available.
Credits and Acknowledgments for WW2010.
Department of Atmospheric Sciences (DAS) at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.